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Unit Guide

ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
Entering the Era of Good Feelings, Monroe advances America's authority overseas while the Supreme Court continues to expand the power of the court and federal authority.
KEY EVENTS
  • ​Era of Good Feelings
  • Seminole War
  • Compromise of 1820    "Missouri Compromise"
  • McCulloch v. Maryland
  • Monroe Doctrine
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Vocabulary - Era of Good Feelings, Missouri Compromise of 1820, McCulloch v Maryland (1819), Gibbons v Ogden (1824), Monroe Doctrine (1823)

AGE OF JACKSON
As political strife ends the Era of Good Feelings, Andrew Jackson advances the executive power of the president through his actions towards Indians, tariffs, and banks while the issue of state's rights resurfaces.
KEY TOPICS
  • ​Election of 1824
  • spoils system
  • Tariff of Abominations / Nullification Crisis
  • Indian Removal Act
  • Panic of 1837
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Vocabulary - Election of 1824, spoils system/patronage, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears, Worcester v. Georgia (1832), Panic of 1837

BORDER DISPUTES: MANIFEST DESTINY
Under the vision of Manifest Destiny, the United States pushes westward, engaging in wars with Mexico and crossing trails into the Oregon Territory, sparking border disputes with Britain.
KEY TOPICS
  • ​Birth of the Whig Party
  • Texas War of Independence
  • Mexican-American War
  • "54'40 or Fight"
  • California Gold Rush
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Vocabulary - manifest destiny, Battle of the Alamo (1836), "54'40' of Fight" , Mexican American War (1846-48), Wilmont Proviso (1846), California Gold Rush, Gadsden Purchase (1853)

GROWING PAINS: EARLY REFORMS
Dubbed the American Renaissance, the United States begins to develop its own brand of artistic expression as the nation addresses the number of issues that have developed in the young republic.
KEY EVENTS
  • ​Transcendentalism
  • abolition movement takes hold
  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • Smith founds Mormonism
  • Dorothea Dix & Horace Mann
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Vocabulary - Hudson School of Artists, transcendentalism, abolition, Senaca Falls Covention (1848), Second Great Awakening, utopian communities, temperance movement